Email Required (digital exclusion of people without email)

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(all of Denmark) E-mail required because Danish postal service stops. Germany next?

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Woah, this is sickening.

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Push back strategy when forced to send email to some person or org: use the onionmx Postfix config, get a refusal log. Do your civil disobedience duty.

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Mail servers no longer simply accept RFC-compliant email. Thanks to Google, Microsoft, and Spamhaus, when you are forced to send an email you are forced through a series of arbitrary hurdles and obsticles imposed by the recipient. Every hurdle is an attack on your personal freedom and autonomy. It’s an attack on your control over what info you disclose to who.

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Proposed solution for forced email address submissions: universally shared address with auto-responder.

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In most cases, when you are objectionably forced to supply an email address, the solution is to walk and take your business elsewhere. But what about the cases where you are trapped because you are forced (e.g. by law) into an interaction that demands an email address?

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Bank froze my account because I do not trigger the tracker pixels in their email? Not sure what’s going on…

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Got an email from a bank saying my account has been put in a restricted state because they have been unable to reach me. Their emails reach me fine. They rarely send paper mail but when they do I can see that they have the correct address on file.

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Homeowner’s insurance denied if email not disclosed

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An insurance agent who I called on the phone for a quote demanded my email address. I resisted, said he could have my fax number instead. He said the form he is filling out in order to get me a quote will not move forward without an email address. I got the impression this was not a requirement of the agent but rather the underwriting company, which means no matter which agent sells me the policy it’s impossible to get insurance from that underwriter without an email address. I would be denied insurance with this underwriter had I not supplied an email address *in a phone conversation*. They assume if you have access to a phone line, you have email.

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